CN108409844B

CN108409844B - Application of protein TaNRT2.5 in regulation and control of plant yield

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Publication number: CN108409844B
Application number: CN201810468235.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 童依平; 李文静; 何雪; 赵学强; 滕婉; 马文英
Original assignee: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of CAS
Current assignee: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of CAS
Priority date: 2018-05-16
Filing date: 2018-05-16
Publication date: 2020-10-27
Anticipated expiration: 2038-05-16
Also published as: CN108409844A

Abstract

The invention discloses application of a protein TaNRT2.5 in regulation and control of plant yield. The invention provides an application of TaNRT2.5 protein or related biological materials thereof in regulating and controlling plant yield; the related biological material is a nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing the TaNRT2.5 protein or an expression cassette, a recombinant vector, a recombinant bacterium or a transgenic cell line containing the nucleic acid molecule. The protein TaNRT2.5 provided by the invention can improve the yield of plants: compared with wild plants, the yield of single seeds, the number of ears per plant and the biomass of single plants of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression transgenic plants are obviously increased; the yield of single plant seeds, the number of ears of each plant and the biomass of the single plant of the TaNRT2.5 decrement expression transgenic plant are all obviously reduced. Thus, the protein TaNRT2.5 can be used to regulate plant yield. The invention has important application value for breeding new high-yield plant materials.

Description

Application of protein TaNRT2.5 in regulation and control of plant yield

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of biology, in particular to application of a protein TaNRT2.5 in regulation and control of plant yield.

Background

Wheat is one of the three major grains, is almost all eaten, and only about one sixth of the wheat is used as feed. The two river basin is the earliest region for cultivating wheat in the world, and China is one of the earliest countries for cultivating wheat in the world. In 2010, wheat is the second grain crop (6.51 hundred million tons) in the world with the total production, is second to corn (8.44 hundred million tons), about 40 percent of people use wheat as main grain, the wheat is rich in nutrition, and the wheat can be ground into flour to be made into foods such as steamed bread, biscuits and the like.

The wheat has high nutritive value, and the contained B vitamins and minerals are beneficial to human health. Along with the improvement of the living standard of people in recent years, the demand of society for high-quality special wheat is increasingly large, the planting area of the high-quality wheat is rapidly increased, along with the upgrading of special flour products of processing enterprises and the continuous modernization of processing technology, the modern flour milling industry puts forward higher and higher requirements on the quality and stability of large-batch commercial wheat, and in order to produce the wheat with high protein content, unreasonable application of chemical fertilizers not only causes soil hardening, low fertilizer utilization rate and serious loss pollution, but also greatly influences the yield and quality of the wheat, and has great harm to the environment. Therefore, it is of great significance to culture high-yield excellent wheat varieties by biological means such as genetic engineering.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide application of protein TaNRT2.5 in regulation and control of plant yield.

In a first aspect, the invention claims the use of the tanrt2.5 protein or its related biological material for modulating plant yield (e.g. promoting plant yield enhancement);

the related biological material can be a nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing the TaNRT2.5 protein or an expression cassette, a recombinant vector, a recombinant bacterium or a transgenic cell line containing the nucleic acid molecule.

Further, in the application, the regulation of the plant yield is embodied as follows: the expression level and/or activity of the TaNRT2.5 protein or the coding gene thereof in the plant is increased, and the yield of the plant is increased; the expression level and/or activity of the TaNRT2.5 protein or the coding gene thereof in the plant is reduced, and the yield of the plant is reduced.

Wherein said plant yield may be embodied as at least one of:

(a1) the yield of single plant seeds of the plant;

(a2) the number of plant ears per plant;

(a3) plant individual biomass (dry weight).

In a second aspect, the invention claims a method of breeding a plant variety with increased yield.

The method for breeding a plant variety with improved yield provided by the invention can comprise a step of improving the expression level and/or activity of TaNRT2.5 protein in a receptor plant. Wherein the yield improvement can be embodied as single plant kernel yield improvement and/or plant spike number increase and/or single plant biomass improvement.

Further, the present invention provides a method of breeding a transgenic plant with increased yield.

The method for cultivating the transgenic plant with improved yield, provided by the invention, can specifically comprise the following steps: introducing a nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing TaNRT2.5 protein into a receptor plant to obtain a transgenic plant; the transgenic plant has increased yield as compared to the recipient plant. Wherein the yield improvement can be embodied as single plant kernel yield improvement and/or plant spike number increase and/or single plant biomass improvement.

In a third aspect, the invention claims a method of breeding a plant variety with reduced yield.

The method for breeding a plant variety with reduced yield provided by the invention can comprise the step of reducing the expression level and/or activity of TaNRT2.5 protein in a receptor plant. Wherein the yield reduction can be embodied as single plant kernel yield reduction and/or spike-per-plant number reduction and/or single plant biomass reduction.

Further, the present invention provides a method for breeding a transgenic plant with reduced yield.

The method for cultivating the transgenic plant with reduced yield provided by the invention specifically comprises the following steps: inhibiting and expressing coding genes of TaNRT2.5 protein in a receptor plant to obtain a transgenic plant; the transgenic plant has reduced yield as compared to the recipient plant. Wherein the yield reduction can be embodied as single plant kernel yield reduction and/or spike-per-plant number reduction and/or single plant biomass reduction.

In the second aspect, the "introducing into a recipient plant a nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing the tanrt2.5 protein" may be specifically achieved by introducing into the recipient plant a recombinant expression vector containing a gene encoding the tanrt2.5 protein.

The recombinant expression vector can be constructed by using the existing plant expression vector. The plant expression vector comprises a binary agrobacterium vector, a vector which can be used for plant microprojectile bombardment and the like, such as pCAMBIA-1300-221, pGreen0029, pCAMBIA3301, pCAMBIA1300, pBI121, pBin19, pCAMBIA2301, pCAMBIA1301-UBIN or other derivative plant expression vectors. The plant expression vector may also comprise the 3' untranslated region of the foreign gene, i.e., a region comprising a polyadenylation signal and any other DNA segments involved in mRNA processing or gene expression. The poly A signal can direct the addition of poly A to the 3' end of the mRNA precursor. When the gene is used for constructing a recombinant expression vector, any one of enhanced, constitutive, tissue-specific or inducible promoters, such as a cauliflower mosaic virus (CAMV)35S promoter, a Ubiquitin gene Ubiquitin promoter (pUbi), a stress-inducible promoter rd29A and the like, can be added before the transcription initiation nucleotide, and can be used alone or in combination with other plant promoters; in addition, when the gene of the present invention is used to construct a recombinant expression vector, enhancers, including translational or transcriptional enhancers, may be used, and these enhancer regions may be ATG initiation codon or initiation codon of adjacent regions, etc., but must be in the same reading frame as the coding sequence to ensure proper translation of the entire sequence. The translational control signals and initiation codons are widely derived, either naturally or synthetically. The translation initiation region may be derived from a transcription initiation region or a structural gene. In order to facilitate the identification and screening of transgenic plant cells or plants, the recombinant expression vectors used may be processed, for example, by adding genes encoding enzymes or luminescent compounds which produce a color change, antibiotic markers having resistance or chemical resistance marker genes, etc., which are expressed in plants. Or directly screening the transformed plants in a stress environment without adding any selective marker gene.

In the invention, the promoter for starting the coding gene transcription of TaNRT2.5 protein in the recombinant vector is a Ubiquitin promoter.

More specifically, the recombinant expression vector is a recombinant plasmid obtained by inserting the coding gene of TaNRT2.5 protein into a multiple cloning site (BamHI and KpnI) of pUbi-163 vector.

In a third aspect, the expression of the coding gene of TaNRT2.5 protein in a recipient plant can be specifically realized by introducing an interference vector containing a DNA fragment shown as a formula (I) into the recipient plant;

SEQ_{forward direction}-X-SEQ_{Reverse direction}(I)

Said SEQ_{Forward direction}Has the sequence of SEQ ID No.3 at positions 1-229;

said SEQ_{Reverse direction}And the sequence of SEQ_{Forward direction}Is reverse complementary (in particular to position 411-639 of SEQ ID No. 3);

said X is said SEQ_{Forward direction}And said SEQ_{Reverse direction}In the sequence, the X and the SEQ_{Forward direction}And said SEQ_{Reverse direction}Are not complementary.

In the present invention, the X in the formula (I) is specifically shown as position 236-404 of SEQ ID No. 3.

More specifically, the nucleotide sequence of the DNA fragment shown in the formula (I) is shown in SEQ ID No. 3.

In the invention, the interference vector is specifically a recombinant plasmid obtained by inserting the DNA fragment shown in the formula (I) into a multiple cloning site (BamHI and KpnI) of pUbi-163 vector.

In the above method, the recombinant expression vector carrying the coding gene of the tanrt2.5 protein or the interference vector carrying the DNA fragment represented by formula (I) is introduced into the recipient plant, which may specifically be: plant cells or tissues are transformed by conventional biological methods using Ti plasmids, Ri plasmids, plant viral vectors, direct DNA transformation, microinjection, conductance, agrobacterium mediation, etc., and the transformed plant tissues are grown into plants.

In the first, second and third aspects, the tanrt2.5 protein may be a tanrt2.5-3B protein (i.e. a tanrt2.5 protein located on the wheat B genome). Furthermore, the TaNRT2.5-3B protein may specifically be any one of the following proteins:

(A1) protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1;

(A2) protein which is obtained by substituting and/or deleting and/or adding one or more amino acid residues to the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No.1 and has the same function;

(A3) a protein having 99% or more, 95% or more, 90% or more, 85% or more, or 80% or more homology to the amino acid sequence defined in any one of (A1) to (A2) and having the same function;

(A4) a fusion protein obtained by attaching a tag to the N-terminus and/or C-terminus of the protein defined in any one of (A1) to (A3).

In a specific embodiment of the invention, the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is specifically a protein encoded by the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID No.2 (namely HHHHHHHH is added to the C terminal of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No. 1).

Accordingly, in the first, second and third aspects, the "nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing the tanct2.5 protein" may be a gene encoding the tanct2.5-3B protein. Furthermore, the coding gene of TaNRT2.5-3B protein may be any one of the following DNA molecules:

(B1) a DNA molecule represented by SEQ ID No.2 at positions 1-1542;

(B2) DNA molecule shown in SEQ ID No. 2;

(B3) a DNA molecule which hybridizes under stringent conditions to the DNA molecule defined in (B1) or (B2) and encodes said tanrt2.5 protein;

(B4) a DNA molecule which has more than 99%, more than 95%, more than 90%, more than 85% or more than 80% homology with the DNA sequence defined in any one of (B1) - (B3) and encodes the TaNRT2.5 protein.

The stringent conditions may be hybridization with a solution of 6 XSSC, 0.5% SDS at 65 ℃ followed by washing the membrane once with each of 2 XSSC, 0.1% SDS and 1 XSSC, 0.1% SDS.

In the first, second and third aspects, the plant may be a monocotyledonous plant, and may be a dicotyledonous plant.

Further, the monocotyledon may be a gramineae plant.

Further, the gramineous plant may be wheat.

In a specific embodiment of the present invention, the plant is the wheat variety longchun 23.

Experiments prove that the protein TaNRT2.5 provided by the invention can increase the yield of plants: compared with wild plants, the yield of single seeds, the number of ears per plant and the biomass of single plants of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression transgenic plants are obviously increased; the yield of single plant seeds, the number of ears of each plant and the biomass of the single plant of the TaNRT2.5 decrement expression transgenic plant are all obviously reduced. Thus, the protein TaNRT2.5 can be used to regulate plant yield. The invention has important application value for breeding new high-yield plant materials.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B and pUbi-TaNRT2.5-RNAi vectors. A is pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B; b is pUbi-TaNRT2.5-RNAi.

FIG. 2 shows the DNA level identification of TaNRT2.5 transgenic line. A is a DNA identification picture of TaNRT2.5-3B super-expression line, PC represents a vector plasmid (positive control), WT represents wild type Longchun No. 23 (negative control); b is the DNA identification chart of TaNRT2.5 reduced expression line, PC represents the vector plasmid (positive control), WT represents wild-type No. 23 Longchun (negative control). The arrow indicates the destination stripe position.

FIG. 3 shows the RNA level identification of TaNRT2.5 transgenic line. A is the result of RNA identification of TaNRT2.5-3B ultrasonic expression system; b is the result of RNA identification of TaNRT2.5 decrement expression line. WT represents the wild-type Long Chun No. 23. TaActin is used as an internal reference gene, and the values in the figure are mean ± s.e. (n ═ 4), asterisks represent significant analysis of expression of the tarrt 2.5 transgenic line and wild type, P <0.01(×) level.

Detailed Description

The experimental procedures used in the following examples are all conventional procedures unless otherwise specified.

Materials, reagents and the like used in the following examples are commercially available unless otherwise specified.

The wheat variety Long Chun 23 is disclosed in Yuan Xiu, Yang Wen Xiong, high yield and high quality new variety of spring wheat-Long Chun 23, proceedings of wheat crops, 2009,29(4):740 ", and is publicly available from institute of genetics and developmental biology of Chinese academy of sciences.

pUbi-163 vector: the term "plant physical.174, 2274-2288" is publicly available from The applicant and can be used only for The experiments of The instant invention, as described in "Shao, a., Ma, w.y., Zhao, x.q., Hu, m.y., He, x, Teng, w.s., Li, h.and Tong, Y.P (2017).

Example 1 construction of TaNRT2.5 transgenic wheat

Preparation of TaNRT2.5 transgenic plant

(I) acquisition of TaNRT2.5 Gene

1. Extracting total RNA of the wheat variety No. Longchun 23, and carrying out reverse transcription to obtain the genome cDNA thereof.

2. Taking the cDNA obtained in the step 1 as a template, and taking the following primers as primers to carry out PCR amplification to construct a sequence required by overexpression TaNRT2.5-3B transgenic wheat:

TaNRT2.5-OE-F：5’-GGATCCATGGAGGGGGAGTCGAAGCC-3' (the sequence shown underlined is the BamHI cleavage recognition site);

TaNRT2.5-OE-R：5’-GGTACCTCAATGGTGATGGTGATGATGCACGTCGGCCGG CGACC-3' (the sequence underlined is the Kpn I cleavage recognition site).

The following primers are used as primers to carry out PCR amplification to construct a sequence required by wheat of a transgenic line of the TaNRT2.5 with reduced expression:

TaNRT2.5-RNAi-F1：5’-GGATCCGCTTCGACGTGAACCTCCACACG-3' (the sequence shown underlined is the BamHI enzyme digestionRecognition sites);

TaNRT2.5-RNAi-R1：5’-GAATTCAGTATCATGACGGCCACCGACG-3' (the sequence underlined is the EcoRI cleavage recognition site);

TaNRT2.5-RNAi-F2：5’-GGTACCGCTTCGACGTGAACCTCCACACG-3' (underlined sequence is KpnI restriction recognition site);

TaNRT2.5-RNAi-R2：5’-AAGCTTAGTATCATGACGGCCACCGACG-3' (the sequence shown underlined is the HindIII restriction recognition site).

PCR System (40. mu.l): mu.l template cDNA, 1. mu.l KOD plus DNA polymerase, 4. mu.l 10 XPCR buffer for KOD plus, 4. mu.l dNTPs (2mM each), 25mM MgSO₄Mu.l of each 20mM primer was added to the reaction mixture, and the reaction mixture was made up to 40. mu.l with double distilled water.

PCR reaction procedure: 2min at 98 ℃; 30sec at 98 ℃, 30sec at 58 ℃, 45sec at 68 ℃ and 35 cycles.

The nucleotide sequence of the PCR product (denoted as PCR product 1) for overexpression of the TaNRT2.5 gene is '5' -GGATCC+SEQ ID No.2+GGTACC-3'". Wherein, the 1 st to 1542 nd position of SEQ ID No.2 is the cDNA sequence of TaNRT2.5 gene (coding TaNRT2.5-3B protein shown in SEQ ID No. 1), the 1543 rd and 1563 rd position is an added purification tag.

Two PCR products for reducing the expression of TaNRT2.5 gene are provided, one is marked as PCR product 2, and the other is marked as PCR product 3; wherein the nucleotide sequence of the PCR product 2 is "5-GGATCC+ 869-position 1097 + of SEQ ID No.2GAATTC-3 '", the nucleotide sequence of the PCR product 3 being" 5' -GGTACC+ 869-position 1097 + of SEQ ID No.2AAGCTT-3’”。

Construction of cloning vector of TaNRT2.5 gene

Carrying out double enzyme digestion on the PCR product 1 by using BamH I and Kpn I to obtain a gene fragment; the method comprises the following steps of carrying out double enzyme digestion on pUbi-163 vector by BamH I and KpnI to obtain a vector large fragment, connecting a gene fragment with the vector large fragment to obtain a recombinant plasmid, naming the recombinant plasmid as pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B, and sequencing the recombinant plasmid to obtain a correct result. The TaNRT2.5-3B gene in pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B is initiated by the Ubiquitin promoter, as shown in A in FIG. 1. Structural description of pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B vector: the recombinant plasmid obtained after replacing a small fragment between the enzyme cutting sites BamH I and KpnI of pUbi-163 vector by the DNA fragment shown in SEQ ID No. 2.

The above PCR product 2 was digested with BamHI and EcoRI to give a gene fragment S1, the above PCR product 3 was digested with HindIII and KpnI to give a gene fragment S2, the vector intron fragment S3 was recovered by digesting the pUbi-163 vector with EcoRI and HindIII, and the vector backbone V1 was recovered by digesting the pUbi-163 vector with BamHI and KpnI. Then V1 and S3 are respectively connected with S1 and S2 to construct a wheat pUbi-TaNRT2.5-RNAi vector. Sequencing and enzyme digestion verification. As shown at B in fig. 1.

Structural description of pUbi-TaNRT2.5-RNAi vector: and (3) replacing a small fragment between enzyme cutting sites BamH I and KpnI of the pUbi-163 vector by the DNA fragment shown in SEQ ID No.3 to obtain the recombinant plasmid.

(III) obtaining transgenic wheat

The pUbi-TaNRT2.5-3B vector and pUbi-TaNRT2.5-RNAi vector are respectively transferred into wild type wheat No. 23 Longchun by a gene gun method to obtain T0 generation TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression and decrement expression transgenic wheat. Genomic DNA of T0-generation TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression and decrement expression transgenic wheat leaves is extracted and used as a template, and respective upstream primers and downstream primers are used for carrying out PCR amplification to obtain fragments of about 550bp and 450bp, namely positive T0-generation TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression and decrement expression transgenic wheat.

The primers used for identifying TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression transgenic wheat are as follows:

upstream primer T-OEpF: 5'-TTAGCCCTGCCTTCATACGCT-3' (vector sequence);

downstream primer T-OEpR: 5'-GGCGACGAGAACATGGAGCT-3' are provided.

Primers for identifying transgenic wheat with reduced expression of TaNRT2.5:

upstream primer T-RNAi pF: 5'-AAGCACGCCTACTAGTTCAAG-3' (introns);

downstream primer T-RNAi pR: 5'-ACCCATCTCATAAATAACGTCATGCG-3' (vector sequence).

Culturing the positive T0 generation TaNRT2.5-3B transgenic wheat to T3 generation, identifying T1-T3 generation according to the identification method of T0 generation, screening T3 generation TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression and decrement expression transgenic wheat homozygous lines (namely, after T2 generation seeds are harvested, PCR identifies that all plants of the next generation are TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression and decrement expression transgenic wheat to be identified as homozygous lines), harvesting seeds, and adopting the T3 generation TaNRT2.5-3B transgenic homozygous line wheat for overexpression and decrement expression (hereinafter referred to as T3 generation TaNRT2.5-3B homozygous line wheat for overexpression and decrement expression).

The experiment was carried out in parallel with the empty-load control (hereinafter referred to as "empty-load control plant") in which pUbi-163 vector was introduced into wild-type wheat, Longchun No. 23.

Second, detection of transgenic plants

(ii) detection of DNA level

DNAs of leaves of T3 generations of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat, TaNRT2.5 decrement expression wheat and wild type wheat No. Gansu 23 are respectively extracted, and T-OEpF and T-OEpR (specific sequences are as above) are respectively used as templates to identify TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression lines, T-RNAi pF and T-pR are used as primers (specific sequences are as above) to identify TaNRT2.5 decrement expression lines, and simultaneously respective vectors are used as Positive Controls (PC) and wild type No. Gansu 23 is used as negative controls (WT).

PCR reaction (20. mu.l): DNA template (about 20 ng/. mu.l) 2. mu.l; forward primer (10. mu.M) 0.5. mu.l; reverse primer (10. mu.M) 0.5. mu.l; 10 XPCR amplification buffer 2. mu.l; dNTP mix 1. mu.l; TaqDNA polymerase 0.2. mu.l; ddH₂Make up to 20. mu.l of O.

PCR reaction procedure: 94 ℃ for 3 min; 30s at 94 ℃, 30s at 60 ℃, 40s at 72 ℃ and 40 cycles; 5min at 72 ℃.

The target PCR amplification band of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat is about 550bp, and the target PCR amplification band of TaNRT2.5 decrement expression wheat is about 450bp, and the result is shown in FIG. 2.

In fig. 2, PC: vector plasmid positive control; WT: wild type wheat, longchun 23; OE102-6 and OE103-1 are two T3 generations of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat strains respectively; r100-1 and R109-2 are two T3 generations of TaNRT2.5 reduced expression wheat lines, respectively.

FIG. 2 shows that the wild-type No. 23 Long Chun wheat has no objective band, and two T3 TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat lines and two T3 decrement expression wheat lines are primarily identified as positive wheat.

(II) detection of RNA levels

1. Total RNAs of TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat of T3 generation, TaNRT2.5 decrement expression wheat and seeds of the wild type wheat in the filling stage of Longchun No. 23 are respectively extracted and are reversely transcribed into cDNA.

2. And (2) respectively taking the cDNA obtained in the step (1) as a template, taking TaNRT2.5RT pF and TaNRT2.5RT pR as primers to carry out RT-PCR to amplify the TaNRT2.5 gene, and simultaneously taking TaActin pF and TaActin pR as primers to carry out RT-PCR to amplify the internal reference gene TaActin.

The primers are as follows:

an upstream primer TaNRT2.5RT pF: 5'-CGGGAAGTAGATGAGCGTGAT-3', respectively;

downstream primer TaNRT2.5RT pR: 5'-GGTGGCCGTCATGATACTCT-3', respectively;

the upstream primer TaActin pF: 5'-ACCTTCAGTTGCCCAGCAAT-3', respectively;

the downstream primer TaActin pR: 5'-CAGAGTCGAGCACAATACCAGTTG-3' are provided.

And (3) PCR system: DNA template (about 20 ng/. mu.l) 2. mu.l; 0.4. mu.l of upstream primer (10. mu.M); 0.4. mu.l of downstream primer (10. mu.M); 2 × mix (light Cycler SYBR Green I master, Roche)10 μ l; ddH₂Make up to 20. mu.l of O.

PCR procedure: 94 ℃ for 5 min; 94 ℃ 20s, 60 ℃ 20s, 72 ℃ 15s, 45 cycles.

Quantitative analysis: the CT value was analyzed by using Roche LightCycler 480 II real time PCR instrument. TaNRT2.5 gene in T3 generation TaNRT2.5 transgenic wheat and wild type wheat Longchun 23 using TaActin gene as internal reference 2^-ΔctRelative quantification was performed.

The detection results of TaNRT2.5 gene in both T3 generations TaNRT2.5-3B over-expressed wheat and R100-1 and R109-2 generations TaNRT2.5 under-expressed wheat of OE102-6 and OE103-1 are shown in FIG. 3.

In FIG. 3, WT represents Long Chun 23 of wild-type wheat, OE102-6 and OE103-1 represent hyper-expression of TaNRT2.5-3B wheat, and R100-1 and R109-2 represent hypo-expression of TaNRT2.5 wheat.

FIG. 3 shows that compared with the wild type Long Chun 23 wheat, the TaNRT2.5 gene expression levels of both T3 TaNRT2.5-3B over-expressed wheat of OE102-6 and OE103-1 are 372.15-fold and 1665.64-fold respectively. And the expression quantity of TaNRT2.5 genes in the wheat with reduced expression of two TaNRT2.5 genes of R100-1 and R109-2 is respectively reduced by 7.42 times and 16.69 times.

And (3) determining that the two T3 generations TaNRT2.5-3B over-expression wheat of OE102-6 and OE103-1 and the two TaNRT2.5-3B under reduced expression wheat of R100-1 and R109-2 are successfully constructed by the DNA level detection of the step (I) and the RNA level detection of the step (II).

Example 2 detection of the yield traits of TaNRT2.5 transgenic wheat

Method for detecting yield characters

Wheat to be tested: two T3 TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression wheat OE102-6 and OE103-1, two TaNRT2.5 overexpression wheat R100-1 and R109-2, wild type wheat Long Chun No. 23, and no-load control plants.

The determination of the wheat yield-related traits is that under the field condition, the planting field is a test station on the levee of the academy of agriculture and forestry in Hebei province, and the specific steps are as follows:

sowing seeds of each wheat to be tested in 2 rows in each cell, respectively, under the planting conditions of 4 times of repetition, 2m of row length and 5cm of plant spacing, and after the wheat is mature, determining the following indexes of each wheat to be tested: yield per kernel (g/plant), ear per plant, ear per ear, thousand kernel weight (g) and biomass per plant (dry weight).

The results are shown in Table 1. Wherein, WT represents the wild type No. 23 Gangchun wheat, OE102-6 and OE103-1 represent TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression lines, and R100-1 and R109-2 represent TaNRT2.5 decrement expression lines.

TABLE 1 phenotypic assay of the yield of TaNRT2.5 transgenic wheat

Traits	WT	OE102-6	OE103-1	R100-1	R109-2
						Biomass (g/plant)	36.58±3.32	42.78±5.49*	43.11±4.49*	32.34±3.75*	32.65±2.56*
Yield (g/plant)	12.98±1.66	15.75±1.24*	15.50±1.02*	10.94±1.58*	10.61±1.71*
						Ear number per plant	11.96±1.58	13.58±1.88*	13.86±2.17*	9.90±1.56*	10.10±2.46*
Number of grains per ear	65.17±1.41	64.58±1.88	67.22±1.92	58.50±1.88*	62.43±1.41
						Thousand Kernel weight (g)	41.83±0.38	42.95±1.76	41.33±0.89	41.04±0.91	41.16±0.66

Note: indicates that there was a significant difference at the level of P <0.05 compared to the corresponding data in the WT group. )

As can be seen from table 1, the average yield of single plant seeds of wild type wheat longchun 23 under field conditions is 12.98 g, the number of ears per plant is 11.96, and the biomass (dry weight) of the single plant is 36.58 g; the average individual grain yield of OE102-6 and OE103-1 was 15.75 and 15.5 grams, ear number per plant was 13.58 and 13.86, and individual biomass (dry weight) was 42.78 and 43.11 grams; while the average individual grain yield of R100-1 and R109-2 was 10.94 and 10.61 grams, the ears per plant were 9.09 and 10.01, and the individual biomass (dry weight) was 32.34 and 32.65 grams. Compared with wild plants, the no-load control lines have no significant difference in the detected data related to the yield traits.

The results show that under the field condition, the yield of single plant seeds, the number of ears per plant and the biomass of the single plant of the TaNRT2.5-3B overexpression system wheat are obviously increased compared with the wild type wheat Longchun 23, and the yield of the TaNRT2.5 decrement expression system wheat is obviously reduced.

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Ala Ala Ile Ile Leu Leu Thr ThrPro Ala Val Tyr Cys Ser Ala Ile

115 120 125

Ile Asp Ser Ala Ser Ser Phe Leu Leu Val Arg Phe Phe Thr Gly Phe

130 135 140

Ser Leu Ala Ser Phe Val Ser Thr Gln Phe Trp Met Ser Ser Met Phe

145 150 155 160

Ser Ser Pro Lys Val Gly Leu Ala Asn Gly Val Ala Gly Gly Trp Gly

165 170 175

Asn Leu Gly Gly Gly Ala Val Gln Phe Ile Met Pro Leu Val Phe Glu

180 185 190

Val Val Arg Lys Ile Gly Ser Thr Asp Phe Val Ala Trp Arg Val Ala

195 200 205

Phe Phe Ile Pro Gly Ile Met Gln Thr Phe Ser Ala Ile Ala Val Leu

210 215 220

Ala Phe Gly Gln Asp Met Pro Asp Gly Asn Tyr Arg Lys Leu His Lys

225 230 235 240

Ser Gly Glu Met His Lys Asp Ser Phe Gly Asn Val Leu Arg His Ala

245 250 255

Val Thr Asn Tyr Arg Ala Trp Ile Leu Ala Leu Thr Tyr Gly Tyr Cys

260 265 270

Phe Gly Val Glu Leu Ala Val Asp Asn Ile Val Ala Gln Tyr Phe Tyr

275 280 285

Asp Arg Phe Asp Val Asn Leu His Thr Ala Gly Leu Ile Ala Ala Ser

290 295 300

Phe Gly Met Ala Asn Ile Ile Ser Arg Pro Gly Gly Gly Leu Met Ser

305 310 315 320

Asp Trp Leu Ser Asp Arg Phe Gly Met Arg Gly Arg Leu Trp Gly Leu

325 330 335

Trp Ile Val Gln Thr Ile Gly Gly Ile Leu Cys Val Val Leu Gly Val

340 345 350

Val Asp Tyr Ser Phe Gly Ala Ser Val Ala Val Met Ile Leu Phe Ser

355 360 365

Phe Phe Val Gln Ala Ala Cys Gly Leu Thr Phe Gly Ile Val Pro Phe

370 375 380

Val Ser Arg Arg Ser Leu Gly Leu Ile Ser Gly Met Thr Gly Gly Gly

385 390 395 400

Gly Asn Val Gly Ala Val Leu Thr Gln Val Ile Phe Phe Arg Gly Thr

405 410 415

Thr Tyr Lys Thr Glu Thr Gly Ile Met Tyr Met Gly Leu Met Ile Leu

420 425 430

Ala Cys Thr Leu Pro Ile Thr Leu Ile Tyr Phe Pro Gln Trp Gly Gly

435 440 445

Met Phe Ala Gly Pro Arg Lys Gly Ala Thr Ala Glu Glu Tyr Tyr Ser

450 455 460

Gln Glu Trp Thr Glu Glu Glu Arg Ala Lys Gly Tyr Ser Ala Ala Thr

465 470 475 480

Glu Arg Phe Ala Glu Asn Ser Val Arg Glu Gly Gly Arg Arg Ala Ala

485 490 495

Ser Gly Ser Gln Ser Arg His Thr Val Pro Val Asp Gly Ser Pro Ala

500 505 510

Asp Val

<210>2

<211>1563

<212>DNA

<213>Artificial sequence

<400>2

atggaggggg agtcgaagcc ggcggcgatg ggggtgcagg cggcgcccaa gggcaagttc 60

aggatcccgg tggactccga caacaaggcc accgagttct ggctcttctc gttcgcgagg 120

ccgcacatga gcgctttcca cctctcgtgg ttctccttct tctgctgctt cgtctccacc 180

ttcgccgcgc cgccgctcct gccgctcatc cgggacaacc tcggcctcac gggcaaggac 240

atcggcaacg ccgggatcgc gtccgtgtcg ggagccgtgt tcgcgcgtct cgccatgggc 300

acggcctgcg acctggtcgg gccccgcctg gcgtccgcgg ccatcatact gctcaccacc 360

cccgcggtgt actgctccgc catcatcgac tccgcgtcgt cgttcctgct cgtgcgcttc 420

ttcacgggct tctcgctcgc ctccttcgtg tccacgcagt tctggatgag ctccatgttc 480

tcgtcgccca aggtggggct ggccaacggc gtcgccggcg gctggggcaa cctcggcggg 540

ggcgccgtgc agttcatcat gccgctcgtg ttcgaggtcg tccgcaagat cggcagcacg 600

gacttcgtcg cgtggcgcgt cgccttcttc atcccgggca tcatgcagac gttctcggcc 660

atcgccgtgc tggcgttcgg gcaggacatg ccggacggca actaccgtaa gctgcacaag 720

agcggggaga tgcacaagga cagcttcggc aacgtgctgc gccacgcggt caccaactac 780

cgggcctgga tcctggcgct cacctacggc tactgcttcg gcgtcgagct cgccgtcgac 840

aacatcgtgg cgcagtactt ctacgaccgc ttcgacgtga acctccacac ggccggactc 900

atcgccgcca gcttcgggat ggccaacatc atctcccgcc ccggcggcgg gctcatgtcc 960

gactggctct ccgaccggtt cggcatgcgc ggcaggctgt ggggactgtg gatcgtgcag 1020

accatcggcg gcatcctctg cgtggtgctc ggcgtcgtcg actactcgtt cggcgcgtcg 1080

gtggccgtca tgatactctt ctccttcttc gtgcaggccg cgtgcgggct caccttcggc 1140

atcgtgccgt tcgtctcgcg gcggtcgctg gggctcatct ccggaatgac cggcgggggc 1200

ggcaacgtgg gggccgtgct gacgcaggtc atcttcttcc gcggcaccac gtacaagacg 1260

gagacgggga tcatgtacat ggggctgatg atcctggcgt gcacgctgcc catcacgctc 1320

atctacttcc cgcagtgggg cggcatgttc gccgggccgc ggaagggggc gacggcggag 1380

gagtactaca gccaggagtg gaccgaggag gagcgggcca aggggtacag cgccgcgacc 1440

gagcgtttcg cggagaacag cgtgcgcgag ggcggtcgga gggcggcgtc gggcagccag 1500

tcaaggcaca ccgtccccgt cgacgggtcg ccggccgacg tgcatcatca ccatcaccat 1560

tga 1563

<210>3

<211>639

<212>DNA

<213>Artificial sequence

<400>3

gcttcgacgt gaacctccac acggccggac tcatcgccgc cagcttcggg atggccaaca 60

tcatctcccg ccccggcggc gggctcatgt ccgactggct ctccgaccgg ttcggcatgc 120

gcggcaggct gtggggactg tggatcgtgc agaccatcgg cggcatcctc tgcgtggtgc 180

tcggcgtcgt cgactactcg ttcggcgcgt cggtggccgt catgatactg aattcaagct 240

tacgtcctcc cctgcgcggc gcgcaacaag ggacgacgac ggcacccaga tacaaaaaaa 300

aatggtgatc atccagctct ctcaagaaaa tatcaagttc ttcagagttc agattacaca 360

cactctagct tgaactagta ggcgtgcttg atcttgatct taccaagctt agtatcatga 420

cggccaccga cgcgccgaac gagtagtcga cgacgccgag caccacgcag aggatgccgc 480

cgatggtctg cacgatccac agtccccaca gcctgccgcg catgccgaac cggtcggaga 540

gccagtcgga catgagcccg ccgccggggc gggagatgat gttggccatc ccgaagctgg 600

cggcgatgag tccggccgtg tggaggttca cgtcgaagc 639

Claims

The application of TaNRT2.5 protein or related biological materials thereof in regulating and controlling wheat yield;

the wheat yield is embodied as at least one of the following:

(a1) the yield of single wheat plant grains;

(a2) the number of each spike of wheat;

(a3) wheat single plant biomass;

the related biological material is a nucleic acid molecule capable of encoding the TaNRT2.5 protein or an expression cassette, a recombinant vector or a transgenic cell line containing the nucleic acid molecule;

the TaNRT2.5 protein is TaNRT2.5-3B protein; the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is a protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1;

the expression quantity and/or activity of the TaNRT2.5 protein in the wheat is increased, and the yield of the wheat is improved; the expression level and/or activity of the TaNRT2.5 protein in the wheat is reduced, and the yield of the wheat is reduced.
2. Use according to claim 1, characterized in that: the nucleic acid molecule is a DNA molecule as described in any one of:

(B1) a DNA molecule represented by SEQ ID No.2 at positions 1-1542;

(B2) DNA molecule shown in SEQ ID No. 2.
3. A method for breeding a wheat variety with increased yield, comprising the step of increasing the expression level and/or activity of a tanrt2.5 protein in recipient wheat;

the yield improvement is embodied as single plant seed yield improvement and/or increased ear number per plant and/or single plant biomass improvement;

the TaNRT2.5 protein is TaNRT2.5-3B protein; the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is a protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1.
4. A method for breeding transgenic wheat with improved yield comprises the following steps: introducing a nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing TaNRT2.5 protein into receptor wheat to obtain transgenic wheat; the transgenic wheat has an increased yield as compared to the recipient wheat;

the yield improvement is embodied as single plant seed yield improvement and/or increased ear number per plant and/or single plant biomass improvement;

the TaNRT2.5 protein is TaNRT2.5-3B protein; the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is a protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1.
5. A method for breeding a wheat variety with reduced yield, comprising the step of reducing the expression level and/or activity of the tanrt2.5 protein in recipient wheat;

the yield reduction is embodied as the reduction of the yield of single plant grains and/or the reduction of the number of ears per plant and/or the reduction of the biomass of the single plant;

the TaNRT2.5 protein is TaNRT2.5-3B protein; the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is a protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1.
6. A method of breeding transgenic wheat with reduced yield comprising the steps of: inhibiting and expressing coding genes of TaNRT2.5 protein in receptor wheat to obtain transgenic wheat; the transgenic wheat has a reduced yield as compared to the recipient wheat;

the yield reduction is embodied as the reduction of the yield of single plant grains and/or the reduction of the number of ears per plant and/or the reduction of the biomass of the single plant;

the TaNRT2.5 protein is TaNRT2.5-3B protein; the TaNRT2.5-3B protein is a protein with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein: the introduction of the nucleic acid molecule capable of expressing the TaNRT2.5 protein into the receptor wheat is realized by introducing a recombinant expression vector containing a coding gene of the TaNRT2.5 protein into the receptor wheat.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein: the inhibition expression of the coding gene of TaNRT2.5 protein in the receptor wheat is realized by introducing an interference vector containing a DNA fragment shown in a formula (I) into the receptor wheat;

SEQ_{forward direction}- X - SEQ_{Reverse direction}（I）

Said SEQ_{Forward direction}Has the sequence of SEQ ID No. 3;

said SEQ_{Reverse direction}And the sequence of SEQ_{Forward direction}Is complementary in reverse direction;

said X is said SEQ_{Forward direction}And said SEQ_{Reverse direction}In the sequence, the X and the SEQ_{Forward direction}And said SEQ_{Reverse direction}Are not complementary.
9. The method of claim 4, wherein: the nucleic acid molecule is a DNA molecule as described in any one of:

(B1) a DNA molecule represented by SEQ ID No.2 at positions 1-1542;

(B2) DNA molecule shown in SEQ ID No. 2.
10. The method of claim 6, wherein: the coding gene is a DNA molecule as described in any one of the following:

(B1) a DNA molecule represented by SEQ ID No.2 at positions 1-1542;

(B2) DNA molecule shown in SEQ ID No. 2.